He Xiangdong said to Master Hou San: "Is this really OK?"

He Xiangdong followed the art troupe to perform on the Western Front for three months. His real purpose was to accumulate some qualifications for himself, make contributions to the troupe, and then he could get more resources and opportunities.

According to He Xiangdong's original idea, it would be great if he could go to the TV a few more times. It would be great if he could go to Quyuan Miscellaneous Hall again, but he never expected that Master Hou San would be the Spring Festival Gala if he opened his mouth.

The Spring Festival Gala is too important and has a lot of connection for an artist. He can imagine the upcoming storm.

Master Hou San looked at He Xiangdong and said with a smile: "Are you scared?"

He Xiangdong shook his head and said, "That's not the case. I'm mainly worried about not being good for your reputation."

Mr. Hou took out another cigarette and lit it. He felt that his smoking addiction was getting bigger and bigger during this period. He was not enough to smoke at all, but he had many troubles and felt very annoyed if he didn't smoke.

He lit a cigarette and started to sniffle: "I'm just like this anyway in my life, and I can't go any further. I'm over fifty years old this year, and it's time to fight for fame and fortune."

Mr. Hou San held a cigarette in his mouth, frowned and looked at He Xiangdong, and said with a heavy expression: "I have been talking about crosstalk in my life, and my level is just that. I can't compare to those artists, but everything I can get now is given by crosstalk."

"Whether it is now salary, position, reputation or status, it is given by crosstalk. At this age, it is time to do something for this industry. The crosstalk industry is not prosperous now, and no one wants to listen to crosstalk, and young people are unwilling to learn this traditional art. This won't work."

"It is rare that you have the heart to love crosstalk and have high artistic attainments. Besides, you are so young, I really want to cheer you up so that everyone inside and outside can see that crosstalk is still alive. As long as there are young people like you who are willing to learn crosstalk well, crosstalk will be alive and will live well."

"As for being scolded, hehe, if you want to scold, just scold. There are no artists who don't want to be scolded. As long as more young people are willing to learn crosstalk well, it's worth it for me to be scolded. Don't worry about me. Saving crosstalk is not your personal business, it's the business of all our crosstalk artists. If I still care about being scolded or not, and don't even have this responsibility, then I'm not worthy of being a Hou family anymore."

He Xiangdong's eyes were a little red, and he pursed his lips tightly and couldn't speak.

There are three major families in the crosstalk world, including the Ma family, Hou family and Chang family. There is no stronger responsibility than the Hou family. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, all literature and art had to serve the New China. There are many dregs in crosstalk from the old era that need to be modified. If it is not modified, crosstalk will be over in that era.

Not many people were willing to change this back then. Most of the artists who came from the old society were out of school and didn’t even know each other. Who could have come to this?

And they are all old things that everyone is used to talking about. Many people will not say anything after changing it rashly. There were a lot of opinions at that time. One of them is that they will not change it, and the second is that they do not want to change it.

There were many famous crosstalk artists at that time, but no one dared to stand up and take the lead. If they were corrected, this was a great achievement. But if they were messed up, they would become a sinner forever and would be poked at the back and scolded by others.

It was also under this background that the old Marquis took the initiative to step up and took the lead in crosstalk reform. He contacted famous literary masters in the past, such as Mr. Lao She and others, and came up to transform traditional crosstalk. Later, a crosstalk reform group was established, and the old jokes that should be changed will be changed, and the performances that cannot be changed will be banned directly.

This is easy to say, but it is too difficult to do. Some jokes do not meet the promotional needs at that time, but these jokes are famous works by some crosstalk artists. Almost every performance audience asks them to come here. This is their lifeblood. Now that you have banned them, what should you do if you let them do?

So the old marquis did this under tremendous pressure back then, and there was no way to avoid doing this. Someone in the crosstalk world had to take responsibility under pressure, and the old marquis stood up resolutely.

After the reform of traditional crosstalk, the old Marquis and Yi criticized crosstalk actors to write new crosstalk in the new social era. They have brought crosstalk to a grand ceremony and have been received by national leaders many times, allowing all crosstalk speakers to join the Quyi Troupe, be able to eat the country's food, and be the people's artists. They are no longer the lower-ranking artists of the prostitutes back then.

So why as long as you mention the old Marquis, the first word that pops up in everyone's mind is a crosstalk master. The word "master" cannot be given casually, nor is it like later generations. If you learn crosstalk for three to five years, the media will dare to put the master on this product.

Those who have made great contributions to the industry should not be respected as masters. Even if you say that crosstalk is invincible in the world, you can only be a crosstalk master. In more sense, the master is the highest evaluation of a crosstalk artist in art, and the master is a respectful title for his contribution to the entire industry.

This is the responsibility of the Hou family, including the old Marquis' personal disciple, Mr. Ma Ji, who raised the banner of praise in the 1960s. Not only in that era, but also to this day, Mr. Ma Ji is still being scolded by insiders and outsiders.

Many people say that crosstalk is a satirical art, but you just become a flatterer. Putting the cart before the horse is turned on, it is simply a shame in the crosstalk world. Mr. Ma Ji is the one who carries the banner of the crosstalk world today, but many people are scolding him, saying that he took the banner and took everyone to the wrong way.

There are many criticisms. Regardless of whether the praise-type crosstalk is the essence of crosstalk, this kind of crosstalk survived during that most difficult period.

In that turbulent era, all artists were persecuted, and the performance of folk arts was not allowed. The artists were sent to reform, leaving the dead and fleeing and injured.

It was also in that era that Mr. Ma Ji took the banner of crosstalk, allowing praise-type crosstalk to be performed in the most difficult periods, and allowing crosstalk to be eliminated from the foundation of the performance.

Of course, he knew what he would welcome when he stood up. Whether it was inside or outside the industry, or even the public audience, he might be cursing him because there were too many people in that era. But he still stood up and stood up with all the pressure in order to make crosstalk.

Can't such a person be called a master? At the beginning, when the Xiangwen Society, Director Xu, the director of the District Cultural Bureau, asked He Xiangdong what he thought of Mr. Ma Ji, and He Xiangdong said without hesitation that this was a true master.

This is the reason.

After the glorious crosstalk period in the 1980s, the crosstalk industry was already in a downturn in the late 1990s. It was under the background of this general environment that the old Marquis' third son, the real Hou family, also decided to stand up. He wanted to push He Xiangdong out under pressure and try his best to save the decline in crosstalk.

It is not surprising that Master Hou San can do such a thing, because he is from the Hou family, so he should have such responsibility.

If we abandon the crosstalk masters that the media has randomly praised, if we say that the crosstalk world will have another real master, it will definitely be the one who will save the crosstalk that has been dead and revived, so that all crosstalkists can live a good life by speaking crosstalk well. To be continued.
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